severely attacked the bolls that only one-half bale ^?s nicked froT 12 
acres. Other adjacent fields "ere as severely attacked. 
SWEETPOTATO K0R17T0RM ( Herse cingulata Fab. ) 
Alabarra. J. M. Robinson (October 23): J. D. Sarrford, of Montgomery, re- 
ported 40 acres of s^eetuotato foliage destroyed. The larvae, in mi- 
grating from the field, accumulated in s ditch barrier to the extent of 
a ragon load. 
CHANGA ( S catter i scus vicinu s Scudd. ) 
Florida. J. R, Watson (October 23): Mole crickets, chiefly the changa, are 
troublesome in gardens and seed beds in many sections, including the 
celery seed beds around Sanford and gardens over the southern "Dart of 
the State. 
TOMATO 
COM EAR WORM ( Heliothis obsoleta Fab. ) 
Mississippi. C. Lyle (October 23): Late tomatoes are being seriously damaged 
in several localities, reuorts being received from Meridian, Dossville, 
and State College. It vas also reported as injuring late corn at Belzoni 
and Senatobia. 
Kansas. H. R. Bryson (September 18): The corn enr ^otts '-ere very plentiful 
in alfalfa al" 1 fall. They were also present in truck patches, causing 
sorre injury to beans and torratoes. Probably the irost serious injury has 
been in alfalfa fields and in sorghuir heads, where the dajrage cannot be 
readily measured. 
Texas. H. J. Reinhard (October 22): Uu to the middle of October this insect 
had caused considerable damage to late grain- sorghuir crops in Burleson, 
Brazos, and Madison Counties. 
California. A. E. Michelbacher (October 17): In sorre fields in central Cal- 
ifornia as high as 25 uercent of the torratoes are infested with the corn 
ear w orms. A survey just completed shored that in general from about 5 
to 25 percent of the fruit ras infested. 
J. C.. Elmore (September 30): Several tomato fields at El Cajon, 
San Diego County, showed that 25 percent of the fruit ras infested. 
TOMATO PIMORM ( Gnorimoschema lycooerslcella Busck) 
California. S. Lotfr^ood (October 2): On September 10 of this year the torrato 
oin^orrr ras found in the hills northeast of Felt on, Santa Cruz County. 
The infested Plant "as a native Sola put , either S. xa nt i or S. umbellif - 
erum. 
